Plyometrics
. Plyometrics is a form of resistance training that develops your strength and power. Football requires explosive speed and strength and plyometrics can help you develop both.
. Plyometrics are exercises that allow your muscles to reach maximum force in the shortest amount of time.
. In a plyometric activity, the muscle involved is first loaded with an eccentric followed by a contraction.
. Stretching before the contraction allows your muscle to contract with more force.
. Plyometric training conditions the body through dynamic and resistance exercises.
. This includes exercises that lengthen but shorten your muscles to increase the power in them.
. The basis of this type of training is the expansion and contraction of your muscle fibres when the limbs are put through a range of motion.
. By varying the intensity and integrating rest days, this will prevent your risk of injury.
. Examples of exercises include squat jumps, box jumps, bounding, butt kicks, ladder drills, zig-zag hops, bench press, lateral raises, chin ups, and medicine ball chest passes.
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